TY - BOOK AU - Moss,Peter AU - Dahlberg,Gunilla AU - Pence,Alan R. AU - Moss,Peter TI - Beyond quality in early childhood education and care: languages of evaluation SN - 9780415819046 (hbk.) : AV - LB1139.23 .D25 2013 U1 - 372.21 DAH PY - 2013/// CY - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group KW - Early childhood education KW - Philosophy KW - Child care services KW - Postmodernism and education KW - Critical pedagogy KW - Education KW - ukslc KW - Pre-school & kindergarten KW - thema KW - Philosophy & theory of education KW - Educational strategies & policy KW - News media & journalism KW - Media studies N1 - Previous ed.: 2007; Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-209) and index; 1.What this book is about -- 2.Theoretical perspectives: modernity and postmodernity, power and ethics -- 3.Constructing early childhood: what do we think it is? -- 4.Constructing early childhood: what do we think it is -- 4.Constructing the early childhood institution: what do we think they are for? -- 5.Beyond the discourse of quality to the discourse of meaning making -- 6.The Stockholm Project: constructing a pedgagoy that speaks in the voice of a child, the pedagogue and the parent -- 7.Pedagogical documentation: a practice for relection and democracy -- 8.Minority directions in the majority world: threats and prossibilities N2 - Taking a broad approach, this title relates issues of early childhood to the sociology of childhood, philosophy, ethics, political science and other fields and to an analysis of the world we live in today. It places these issues in a global context and draws on work from Canada, Sweden and Italy, including the world famous nurseries in Reggio Emilia ER -